Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: August 15, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Aug. 8	Aug. 9	Aug. 10	Aug. 11	Aug. 12
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0351	1.0192	1.0210	1.0269	1.0352
BRAZIL	REAL	1.5990	1.6290	1.6240	1.6277	1.6125
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9889	0.9893	0.9909	0.9891	0.9879
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4342	6.4304	6.4172	6.3935	6.3892
DENMARK	KRONE	5.2306	5.2310	5.2485	5.2354	5.2314
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.4241	1.4242	1.4193	1.4230	1.4239
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.8047	7.8087	7.8057	7.7928	7.7930
INDIA	RUPEE	45.0000	45.2000	45.2500	45.2900	45.3900
JAPAN	YEN	77.5300	77.1600	76.4100	76.6800	76.7900
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0170	3.0230	3.0040	2.9965	2.9990
MEXICO	PESO	12.1768	12.3440	12.3850	12.4100	12.2825
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8317	0.8202	0.8120	0.8237	0.8319
NORWAY	KRONE	5.4593	5.5121	5.5248	5.5102	5.5205
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2171	1.2146	1.2177	1.2116	1.2110
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.0875	7.3012	7.2575	7.2286	7.1815
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1082.9000	1087.4500	1080.1000	1078.2000	1078.9000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	109.7400	109.7500	109.6500	109.6000	109.6000
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.4612	6.5263	6.5620	6.4880	6.4989
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.7553	0.7313	0.7296	0.7559	0.7711
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	28.9800	29.0200	28.9500	28.9800	28.9700
THAILAND	BAHT	29.8700	29.9100	29.8800	29.9600	29.9600
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6354	1.6194	1.6169	1.6228	1.6284
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	95.5002	95.7142	95.6640	95.5749	95.4184
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	69.4298	69.3927	69.4012	69.3864	69.3817
3) OITP	JAN97=100	123.9739	124.5310	124.4006	124.2124	123.8513

N = No data for this date.

For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the May 2010 release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg L.P.

* U.S. dollars per currency unit.

1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.

The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below:

1 EURO

= 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
= 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS
= .585274 CYPRUS POUND
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= .429300 MALTESE LIRA
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR